The democratic establishment is able to rake in the most money and garner the most cultural clout when things are in a state of manufactured crisis. If Trump needs a boost to be enough of a threat to push that crisis dial up they'll do it. Sorta like tickling the dragons tail.
It's a rock and a hard place. If you let Trump do whatever he wants with no consequences, he'll do more bad things because there are no consequences. If you try to prosecute him for bad things, he'll milk his base's persecution complex to empower him to do more bad things.
Democrats have no way out of this jam because they can't run an actually good candidate (even Bernie was intolerable to the party) and 50ish years of fetishizing bipartisanship means they've ceded the ability to really go hard.
again, they know it helps him. they want him to be the nominee. he's their best chance, he's gonna suck shit in the general. everyone understands this except for terminal-2016-brained chuds and leftists.
Yeah, it really depends on how energized the whole election is. Biden is weird because he tends to do better with lower turnout. But I really think that the Supreme Court kinda fucked the dog for Trump here. We'll see where the whole thing is by next year, but right now they've really shot themselves in the foot giving up on the abortion football and trying to go in on trans people. It's really starting to lose people in the Midwest swing states.
:picard: how can they not realize that this helps him
The democratic establishment is able to rake in the most money and garner the most cultural clout when things are in a state of manufactured crisis. If Trump needs a boost to be enough of a threat to push that crisis dial up they'll do it. Sorta like tickling the dragons tail.
makes me wonder if the play is to offer him a plea deal where he is disqualified from office
And have to develop a new bete noir? Inconceivable!
It's a rock and a hard place. If you let Trump do whatever he wants with no consequences, he'll do more bad things because there are no consequences. If you try to prosecute him for bad things, he'll milk his base's persecution complex to empower him to do more bad things.
Democrats have no way out of this jam because they can't run an actually good candidate (even Bernie was intolerable to the party) and 50ish years of fetishizing bipartisanship means they've ceded the ability to really go hard.
in fairness to Trumps belief that he will never face consequences it does seem to be realistic
The easy solution is to just declare Trump a terrorist and hit him with a drone strike when he's in another country.
again, they know it helps him. they want him to be the nominee. he's their best chance, he's gonna suck shit in the general. everyone understands this except for terminal-2016-brained chuds and leftists.
ironic to be throwing this around while advocating for a replay of the pied piper strategy
literally worked the last three election cycles, but go off.
Yeah, it really depends on how energized the whole election is. Biden is weird because he tends to do better with lower turnout. But I really think that the Supreme Court kinda fucked the dog for Trump here. We'll see where the whole thing is by next year, but right now they've really shot themselves in the foot giving up on the abortion football and trying to go in on trans people. It's really starting to lose people in the Midwest swing states.